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Happy Hols!

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Colder Than Mars: The Frigid Update

Lefties, it turns out, can’t actually walk and chew gum at the same time: With a few rare exceptions, the only way they know how to critique, say, identity politics, is to first mock everyone who belongs to particular identity categories while blithely ignoring the fact that, actually, whiteness is an identity as well.  

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What’s This Movie Called?: Or, Snakes and Ladders, and the End of Stardom and Friendships

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Let Defeat Sit In Your Bones Or, Forget Amnesia

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Welcome to The Morning After: November 17, 2016

The way ahead for the left is not to cede both discourse and imagination, but to think about how to expand on both to make itself felt as a living, breathing, entity that offers several wild and fantastic possibilities, utopias even, in a frightened and frightening world.

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Weekly Roundup: November 8, 2016

Resign yourself to how horrible it will be.

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Weekly Roundup: November 1, 2016

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Weekly Roundup: October 24, 2016

In too many cases, we have relatively young editors or desperate adjuncts eagerly hoping to have graduate careers in academia or find adjunct gigs, assigned to “edit” famous or powerful academics who might have the influence to advance (or end) their careers.  

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Weekly Roundup: October 20, 2016

I’m fully aware that my requirement for an advance is not likely to be taken seriously by a number of publishers, and that’s fine with me because, well, the current system is doing me no favours.

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Weekly Roundup: August 11, 2016

Hyde Park’s unique and increasingly deathly history as a neighbourhood that exposes the collusion between a major research university that continues to voraciously gobble up chunks of prime real estate while expelling its long-time residents.